The standoff began about 10 a.m. on Friday, when sheriff`s deputies arrived to serve a civil writ stemming from a Marion County child-support case.

They had been told that Alongi was a former boxer, was 6 feet, 6 inches tall, weighed 260 pounds and might be uncooperative. So the deputies brought backup officers from the Coral Springs Police Department with them.

When police arrived, they found Alongi hiding under a car in his garage. When he was ordered to come out, he grabbed a chair, smashed it on the floor and grabbed a piece to use as a club, police said.

He shouted at the officers that he`d never be taken alive, and challenged the officers to kill him. The first officers backed off, and more Coral Springs and sheriff`s deputies were called for help.

After about an hour of talks, Alongi gave up. He was charged with aggravated assault and resisting arrest, and was being held in the Broward County Jail on Friday afternoon.